-
I am excited to announce the release of my new book, Build and Deploy Apps using Azure Developer CLI, a practical, hands-on guide for developers and teams who want to streamline cloud-native application deployments on Microsoft Azure using the Azure Developer CLI (azd). Modern application delivery often gets slowed …
Read More -
Microsoft advises initializing reference type static fields inline to enhance code readability and prevent issues from uninitialized fields. Two patterns are shown: inline initialization and using a static constructor. While both methods do not allocate memory, using a static constructor may slightly improve …
Read More -
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss what it means to take ownership in software engineering. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2025/12/21/what-does-taking-ownership-actually-mean-dev-leader-weekly-120
Read More -
Check out this week from Dev Leader! Here's a list including articles and videos on software engineering, career development, and programming in C#! Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2025/12/20/weekly-recap-20251220
Read More -
2025 was the year software teams stopped optimizing models and started optimizing systems. By December, a few truths were impossible to ignore. 1. Developer Productivity Became the Real Competitive Advantage By mid-year, every major AI lab had cleared the “good enough reasoning” bar. With model quality converging, the …
Read More -
This post looks at authentication and identity validation and describes what should be validated and some of the concepts. With the increasing push to move processes to a digital world and the new threat models, authentication and identity validation MUST be implemented in a professional way. Using standards like …
Read More -
ASP.NET Core 10 introduces native Server-Sent Events as a lightweight, HTTP-native alternative to SignalR for simple one-way real-time updates like dashboards and notifications. Link to article: https://www.milanjovanovic.tech/blog/server-sent-events-in-aspnetcore-and-dotnet-10
Read More -
Welcome to the December 2025 edition of the Azure Developer CLI (azd) release blog—our final release of the year! This post covers releases 1.22.0 through 1.22.5, wrapping up 2025. To share your feedback and questions, join the December release discussion on GitHub. Link to article: …
Read More -
Security vulnerabilities don't fix themselves. Someone needs to track them, prioritize them, and actually ship the fix. If you've ever tried to manage security alerts alongside your regular sprint work, though, you know the friction: you're looking at an alert in one tab, switching to your backlog in another, trying to …
Read More -
Today, we are excited to introduce a new feature for SageMaker Studio: SOCI (Seekable Open Container Initiative) indexing. SOCI supports lazy loading of container images, where only the necessary parts of an image are downloaded initially rather than the entire container. Link to article: …
Read More -
Say you have a shortcut file and you want to see what its target is. The natural thing to do is to call IShellLink::GetPath, which returns S_FALSE if the shortcut does not target a path, or returns S_OK and a path to the target. But for some shortcuts, it returns S_OK but produces a Link to article: …
Read More -
This is the second guest post in a two-part series from José Luis González. José Luis has a PhD in software development and is a JetBrains-certified Kotlin Trainer, who works with developers and engineering teams to deepen their Kotlin skills and apply the language effectively in real projects. At Hyperskill, he runs …
Read More -
Qodana 2025.3 delivers important new capabilities that help teams standardize their development practices, improve compliance, make audits easier, and simplify large-scale code analysis. From introducing Global Project Configuration, a major step toward scalable, centralized policy management, to expanding license …
Read More -
Docker Captains are leaders from the developer community that are both experts in their field and are passionate about sharing their Docker knowledge with others. “From the Captain’s Chair” is a blog series where we get a closer look at one Captain to learn more about them and their experiences. Today we are …
Read More -
Earlier this week, we took a major step forward for the industry. Docker Hardened Images (DHI) is now available at no cost, bringing secure-by-default development to every team, everywhere. Anyone can now start from a secure, minimal, production-ready foundation from the first pull, without a subscription. With that …
Read More -
This article was brought to you by Kumar Harsh, draft.dev. Docker has changed the way we build and ship software. Instead of wrestling with “it works on my machine” issues, developers can now package applications and all their dependencies into a neat, portable container that runs anywhere. No wonder Docker has become …
Read More -
TL;DR Move from prototype to production in hours, not weeks: The new Microsoft Agent Framework and Hosted Agents let you build, test, and deploy multi-agent AI systems with enterprise-grade security—no Kubernetes or container headaches. Orchestrate any model, anywhere: Model Link to article: …
Read More -
AWS Transform is an agentic service that accelerates modernization, including .NET applications. With it, you can transform .NET Framework Windows applications to cross-platform .NET and reduce operating costs up to 40% by running on Linux. For ASP.NET web applications, AWS Transform can port the UI layer to ASP.NET …
Read More -
Introduction AI coding agents/assistants such as GitHub Copilot have become common in modern software engineering workflows. Their strengths—rapid pattern completion, context-aware suggestions, and the ability to learn style from local code—stem from broad training on large corpora of public, general-purpose code. …
Read More -
Since the 2025.3 release, we’ve published several rapid-response updates (2025.3.0.1–2025.3.0.4) for ReSharper and Rider to address the most urgent issues as quickly as possible. The 2025.3.1 update brings all of those fixes together and includes additional improvements that required more time to implement. For Rider, …
Read More